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Vindicators are hostile mobs. They are one of the three types of illagers, which are offshoot villagers – the other two being the illusioner and the evoker.
Spawning
Natural generation
Vindicators spawn during the generation of woodland mansions, in particular rooms. Some rooms will contain 1, others will contain 3, and some will contain 2 accompanied by an evoker. They will not respawn after their initial spawn, thus there are a limited number of them per world. Vindicators that are generated with mansions do not naturally despawn.
Some vindicators may spawn with an enchanted iron axe, depending on the difficulty set: the chances go up as the difficulty goes up.
Drops
Vindicators only drop loot when killed by a player or tamed wolf. They will drop when they die:
- 0–1 emeralds, with the maximum increasing by 1 for every level of Looting.
- 8.5% chance of dropping their iron axe, which increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting.
Behavior
A vindicator chasing a villager.
Vindicators are hostile towards players, iron golems and villagers. They will try to attack them, raising their main hand and wielding an iron axe. When in pursuit of their target they will sprint toward them, at the player's walking speed. When not attacking, they cross their arms similar to a villager, and don't show the axe in their hand.
A vindicator will not pursue the player through the iron door of any naturally occurring woodland mansion jail cells, and after a time, will cease hostility as long as the player remains inside.
If a vindicator is named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b), it will be hostile to any kind of mob, except for evokers, ghasts, illusioners and other vindicators. It will even be hostile to vexes. All mobs, except for endermites, phantoms, guardians, slimes and magma cubes, will try to attack the vindicator in return. The tag overrides its name, the player can give the vindicator any other name and set the Johnny tag to 1b and it will still be hostile in the same way as described. Conversely, you can name the vindicator Johnny and set the Johnny tag to 0b, and the vindicator will not be hostile as described, it will act as a normal vindicator.
Naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a spawner, will make the spawner spawn normal vindicators, not vindicators named Johnny.[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]
Data values
Vindicators have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is vindication_illager.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- Tags common to all mobs spawnable in raids
- Johnny: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, causes the vindicator to exhibit Johnny behavior. Setting to false prevents the vindicator exhibiting Johnny behavior, even if named Johnny. Optional.
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adventure | Adventure, exploration and combat | — | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity. | adventure/root
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![]() | Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_a_mob
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![]() | Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_all_mobs
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History
| release | |||||
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| 1.11 | 16w39a | Vindicators added. | |||
| 16w40a | "Johnny" vindicators are now activated by a custom tag in addition to a custom name. | ||||
Their axe is now one of their HandItems, whereas before it was purely a visual effect. This means their attack now disables shields. | |||||
| Vindicators have been heavily buffed - their attack damage on Easy has been increased from 3 | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Added vindicators. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | Patch 4 | Added vindicators. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Vindicator" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- According to Jeb, naming a vindicator "Johnny" would kill everything that it saw; a reference to The Shining.[2]
References
- ↑ https://minecraft.net/article/meet-vindicator
- ↑ "He just looks insane – and it made me think of The Shining, when Jack Nicholson breaks through the bathroom door, yelling, "Heeere's Johnny!" So I thought it was funny to add an Easter Egg in which you name him Johnny and he would constantly be in hostile mode and kill everything he sees!" – Minecraft.net

